1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

2 And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

3 And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

4 Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

5 It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

6 It reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:

rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7 It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

9 For we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

11 When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

13 And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.